Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Meyers, William F. June 6, 1891
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday June 12, 1891

Death Breaks Into The Ranks of The Lakeside Lodge No. 92, K.P. For the First 
Time.

Died: Saturday morning, June 6th 1891, of inflammation of the bowels, William 
E.Meyers, son of Mr and Mrs Chas. Meyers, at his home 2 miles east of Odessa 
Center.

Death, whenever it comes spreads its gloom over small communities like ours, but 
when it passes the old and decrepit, or the child and with stern partiality 
poises it wings over one in the full strength of young manhood, its pall of 
gloom is greater. Time and again in the past few months the grim messenger has 
entered our village or vicinity with summons for eternity. Each visit left 
homes, dreary and desolate; hearts, weary and well nigh broken. As it insatiate, 
scarcely has the last clod been placed on one grave ere a second yawned for a 
tenant from another home. As each death has been announced there has went out 
from hearts everywhere that flood of sympathy and sorrow, the well-spring of 
which, s the common bond of humanity. But when the word came that Will Meyers 
had passed out from the shores of time to the boundless sea of eternity here was 
a universal surprise and an outpouring of sorrow.to realize he was gone seemed 
impossible when but five days previous he had been on our streets, moving among 
men, full of manly strength and vigor. "In the midst of life we are in death."

The deceased, Wm. F. Meyers was 33 years of age and the last child of a family 
of fourteen children and it is sad indeed for the aged parents as they are left 
in their old age without a child and when they shall be summoned to their 
disaster will be buried by strangers.

Mr. Meyers was a respected citizen and an honored member of Lakeside Lodge No. 
92 Knights of Pythias in which lodge he was sitting when taken sick Monday 
evening.

The K of P Lodge has been instituted here over three years and this death was 
the first one that has occurred in their ranks. The knights of the Lakeside 
Lodge and from Woodland Lodge to the number of seventy-five altogether drove to 
the home of the late brother where at 2 o'clock Sunday a short service was 
conducted after which they, headed by the remains, followed by a procession more 
than half a mile long marched to the M.E.Church where the Rev. Lindsley, of 
Saranac, a brother Knight, officiated in brief service, the choir furnishing 
appropriate song, The floral offerings were very handsome and elaborate. At 
Lakeside cemetery, where three hundred people had congregated,, the usual rites 
of the order were preformed. And all that was mortal of him, who so recently had 
been with us were laid away to their last long rest to
       Sleep the sleep that knows no waking,
       Morn of toil, nor night at waking.

Mr. Meyers had he lived would have been married the day he was buried. The 
funeral it is said, was the largest attended one ever here. Haight & Weed 
funeral directors.

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